In the News: 2021
With our growing community of changemakers, scholars, and innovators, Wesleyan and our alumni are often in the news. Here is just a sampling of highlights from the past year:
TODD SHEPARD ’91, a pr…
A Moment of (Wes) Zen
It seems like forever ago and just yesterday. The tree-lined pathways of College Row bear witness to the many seasons an…
Recommended Reading: Books by Hinton ’85, Kimball ’11, and Others
Alexander Laban Hinton ’85
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. (NYU Press, 2021)
Although the election of Donald Trump in 2016 came as a surprise to many, it wasn’t a shock f…
Toward a More Human-Centered Future of Work
By Steve Cadigan ’86
Most of the discussion around the future of work today tends to be dismal. It centers on the not…
Meet Wesleyan’s Newest 2021 Board of Trustee Members
The Board of Trustees is the governing body of the University and responsible for ensuring that the University fulfills its mission, sustains its values, and appropriately balances its obligations to current and future g…
Letter to the Editor: Experimenting with Computers and Art in the ’70s
It was with personal bemused interest and irony that I read the article Embracing Unpredictability in your latest issue. Because this was not the first time that someone at Wesleyan endeavored to apply computer code…
Letter to the Editor: Professor Christina Crosby’s Lasting Legacy
I read with both admiration and sadness Wesleyan magazine’s article on the life and recent death of Professor Christina Crosby, A Hard Life, Well Lived. For reasons I’ll explain, I had no idea she was at the school despi…
Letter to the Editor: Moments of Inspiration
My family has broad roots at Wesleyan. My brother Brad was a Wesleyan athlete in the ’70s, I earned my MALS at Wesleyan when Wesleyan professors still elevated the landscape of that program, my youngest son graduat…
From Uncommon Journeys, Universal Truths: An Interview with Vinod Busjeet ’73
After growing up on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, Vinod Busjeet ’73 arrived in the United States in the fall of 1971—to start his first semester at Wesleyan. At the time, he was one of only a few international st…
Cultivating Connections: An Interview with Adam Smiley Poswolsky ’05
“Lonely” is a word that has been tossed around a lot in the past year. But loneliness isn’t actually unique to the pande…